tuesday ART live!

In these trying economic times, art budgets are the first to get cut. I am curating a Live Art event at the Double Dutch on Tuesday nights to help keep affordable art alive! Live artists, DJs, $5 raffle tix for a chance to win an original piece of art that comes to life before your eyes. Drink specials all night.. come see and support our local artists!

* tuesday ART live *
When: every Tuesday night from 10-1am
Where: the Double Dutch on 16th @ Guerrero
Why: because we love art!
& stuff: $5 raffles, drawing @ 1am. Beer and whiskey shot for $5, Buds and Bud Lites $2.

~chrissy lynn

Paper Airplanes Event

Hey guys, after a couple of meetings with Will Mosgrove and a lot of brainstorming, the Paper Airplanes event is going to happen. This is the poster that we designed for the event. Any suggestions, ideas or feelings are more than welcome!

Rosanna and Carmen





Why the Paper Airplanes Event?

Everyday we waste a lot of photographic paper in our projects, so we were thinking in different ways to reuse these materials. Within that context and with the goal of gathering a photography community to participate in a sustainable cause, the idea of the Paper Airplanes Event came to mind.

What is it?

Is an event where everybody who is environmentally engaged can participate. We will get together in a specific day, time and place and make paper airplanes out of photo waste paper. Each person will write a message with his or her thoughts on sustainability. At a specific time, all the participants will throw the paper airplanes all at a time. Our task here will be to collect all this paper airplanes and install them in a gallery with a video, pictures of the event and an art statement.

Boston.com's Big Picture runs some very powerful images documenting the massive violence in Northern Mexico tied to its drug trade.

From Boston.com:

In December of 2006, Mexico's new President Felipe Calderón declared war on the drug cartels, reversing earlier government passiveness. Since then, the government has made some gains, but at a heavy price - gun battles, assasinations, kidnappings, fights between rival cartels, and reprisals have resulted in over 9,500 deaths since December 2006 - over 5,300 killed last year alone. President Barack Obama recently announced extra agents were being deployed to the border and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda - overshadowed now by spiraling drug violence and fears of greater cross-border spillover. Officials on both sides of the border are committed to stopping the violence, and stemming the flow of drugs heading north and guns and cash heading south.

There is a lot we can do with our craft. As visual communicators where does this responsibility begin and end? These questions have been on my mind more than ever lately.

-Jon Snyder

Above: A body lies on a stainless steel table waiting for an autopsy at the morgue in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)